The moment a French woman was bitten on the bum by a dingo has been caught on camera just weeks before a young boy was dragged underwater by a dingo on the same island in Australia.
Tourists are being warned to be wary of dingoes when visiting K'gari Island — formerly known as Fraser Island — as authorities warn the dog-like creatures are becoming less fearful of humans.
The woman, in her 20s, was sunbathing when she was bitten on the buttocks in April but the footage has just emerged.
The canine approaches her sunbathing and nips her buttocks before she yelps in pain and jumps up, it bites her for a second time as she tries to flee.
Two months later, just last week, a 10-year-old boy was walking along the seafront on the island’s west coast when a dingo grabbed him by the shoulder and dragged him under.
His 12-year-old sister rushed to help him and he suffered puncture wounds to his arms and shoulders.
“There are too many instances where children are not being appropriately supervised,”
K’gari Assistant Principal Ranger Danielle Mansfield said tourists were failing to appropriately supervise their children and said adults must be aware of their kid's whereabouts at all times.
She said: "On K’gari, this means children and teenagers must be within arm’s reach of an adult at all times, even if you can’t see any dingoes in the area."
The bum-biting dingo was humanely euthanised after authorities believed it had also attacked multiple other tourists, including a seven-year-old boy and a 42-year-old woman.
Rangers said there have been multiple instances on the island where visitors required assistance after they were stalked or snarled at by the wild animals.
Danielle continued: "Rangers chased the animal away from the camping area and we have increased patrols in the region to monitor the wongari’s [dingo] behaviour and pass on dingo-safe messaging to campers and visitors.
"These animals are capable of inflicting serious harm, and they have bitten children and adults, and some are quite brazen and are not fleeing when yelled at or when someone brandishes a stick.
"People think it won't happen to them, but it can happen to anyone and that's why rangers are providing dingo-safe information to as many people as possible."
Rangers say visitors feeding the dingoes are directly causing problems between the animals and people on the island.
"This has to stop now, and people have to make [visitors'] personal safety and the safety of their friends and families a priority", Danielle said.
In other recent incidents, a young girl was flown to hospital after she was attacked by a dingo on the island in March.
And in December, a five-year-old boy needed hospital treatment for bites to his arm, buttocks and head after another attack.
